SAN FRANCISCO — The suspect in the murder of Cash App founder Bob Lee pleaded not guilty in a San Francisco court on Thursday.
Nima Momeni, a fellow tech executive, has been accused of killing Lee last month with a kitchen knife after driving him to a secluded area.Paula Canny, the defense attorney for Momeni, said after the hearing that Lee's death arose from a mix of self-defense and accidental harm.Rejecting that account, San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins said Momeni intended to kill Lee.
Jenkins said that Momeni poses a flight risk because he is a person of means and"anyone that's capable of violently killing someone is a public safety risk."Lee, an executive at cryptocurrency firm MobileCoin, was killed in the early morning hours on April 4 in the San Francisco neighborhood of Rincon Hill, the San Francisco Police Department said last month.
Later in the day, at Lee's hotel room, he had a conversation with Momeni in which he asked Lee about whether his sister was"doing drugs or anything inappropriate," the witness told the police, according to the document.Early the following morning, at about 2 a.m., camera footage showed Lee and Momeni leaving Lee's hotel and getting into Momeni's car, a BMW Z4, prosecutors said.
Police later found a roughly 4-inch blade at the scene that appeared to have blood on it, the document said.
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